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Old Feb 6, 2009 | 04:43 PM
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My wife had a little fender bender in the 525 a couple weeks ago. Body shop spec'ed out the following:
  • New hood
  • New headlight
  • New Grilles
  • Refinish front bumper
Quote was $5,340. Insurance adjuster spec'ed it at $5,196, and after my $500 deductible, the check for $4,696 showed up yesterday. Unfortunately, my 4x4 needed some work as well, so I dropped $788 yesterday. My goal was to repair and upgrade both vehicles with the insurance money. So that leaves $3,908 for the Bimmer.

Here's my current plan:
  • VIS OEM CF Hood
  • M-Tech Body Kit, painted
  • Matte Black Grilles
  • CF Pillars
  • CF Mirror Covers
  • CF Roof Spoiler
  • CF Roundels (hood, trunk, steering wheel, wheels)
Trinity has offered some nice prices on these items. And they will fit the budget as long as I do the work. Hood I'm not too worried about, but the body kit has me a bit concerned. How hard is the M-Tech to install for DIYers?

Another option would be to go with just the M-Tech front bumper, and use the remaining funds for wheels. Does the 5 look silly with just the M-Tech front?

What do you guys think?
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Old Feb 6, 2009 | 06:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Low5' post='787107' date='Feb 6 2009, 07:43 PM
My wife had a little fender bender in the 525 a couple weeks ago. Body shop spec'ed out the following:
  • New hood
  • New headlight
  • New Grilles
  • Refinish front bumper
Quote was $5,340. Insurance adjuster spec'ed it at $5,196, and after my $500 deductible, the check for $4,696 showed up yesterday. Unfortunately, my 4x4 needed some work as well, so I dropped $788 yesterday. My goal was to repair and upgrade both vehicles with the insurance money. So that leaves $3,908 for the Bimmer.

Here's my current plan:
  • VIS OEM CF Hood
  • M-Tech Body Kit, painted
  • Matte Black Grilles
  • CF Pillars
  • CF Mirror Covers
  • CF Roof Spoiler
  • CF Roundels (hood, trunk, steering wheel, wheels)
Trinity has offered some nice prices on these items. And they will fit the budget as long as I do the work. Hood I'm not too worried about, but the body kit has me a bit concerned. How hard is the M-Tech to install for DIYers?

Another option would be to go with just the M-Tech front bumper, and use the remaining funds for wheels. Does the 5 look silly with just the M-Tech front?

What do you guys think?
Should definatley be possible with that money, I figure the hood will run about $1000 and the m-tech bumper could be installed/painted/shipped for $700 total, thats how much it costed for me. It looks fine with jus the front bumper.
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Old Feb 6, 2009 | 06:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Low5' post='787107' date='Feb 6 2009, 08:43 PM
My wife had a little fender bender in the 525 a couple weeks ago. Body shop spec'ed out the following:
  • New hood
  • New headlight
  • New Grilles
  • Refinish front bumper
Quote was $5,340. Insurance adjuster spec'ed it at $5,196, and after my $500 deductible, the check for $4,696 showed up yesterday. Unfortunately, my 4x4 needed some work as well, so I dropped $788 yesterday. My goal was to repair and upgrade both vehicles with the insurance money. So that leaves $3,908 for the Bimmer.

Here's my current plan:
  • VIS OEM CF Hood
  • M-Tech Body Kit, painted
  • Matte Black Grilles
  • CF Pillars
  • CF Mirror Covers
  • CF Roof Spoiler
  • CF Roundels (hood, trunk, steering wheel, wheels)
Trinity has offered some nice prices on these items. And they will fit the budget as long as I do the work. Hood I'm not too worried about, but the body kit has me a bit concerned. How hard is the M-Tech to install for DIYers?

Another option would be to go with just the M-Tech front bumper, and use the remaining funds for wheels. Does the 5 look silly with just the M-Tech front?

What do you guys think?
Mtech front looks good by itself... but if i were you... i would do this...

Mtech body Kit, Black grills, seibon carbon hood( i heard that VIS carbon does not fit as well as seibon), and dont do cf pilars, mirror covers...
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Old Feb 6, 2009 | 07:00 PM
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Originally Posted by tex_phil' post='787191' date='Feb 6 2009, 10:53 PM
Should definatley be possible with that money, I figure the hood will run about $1000 and the m-tech bumper could be installed/painted/shipped for $700 total, thats how much it costed for me. It looks fine with jus the front bumper.
Where did you get the mtech bumper for that cheap painted?
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Old Feb 6, 2009 | 07:03 PM
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Umnitza, and the body shop painted and installed for around $300, mayb e 275
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It's always great when you can turn an accident into a reason to mod. I would consider the vorsteiner hood if you are going to do that upgrade though.

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Old Feb 6, 2009 | 08:17 PM
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Originally Posted by pro3g' post='787197
Umnitza, and the body shop painted and installed for around $300, mayb e 275
pls note that umnitza makes a replica M tech bumper (entire kit now actually) *Not knocking it, it looks good


for OEM: Gary Romani @ Newport BMW, Trinity Autosport, and/or Eurorev have great prices (a quick search will get you contact info )



to the OP: looking forward to the repairs/upgrade
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Old Feb 6, 2009 | 08:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Nick@Jlevi SW' post='787242' date='Feb 7 2009, 12:06 AM
It's always great when you can turn an accident into a reason to mod. I would consider the vorsteiner hood if you are going to do that upgrade though.

+1 with the Vorsteiner hood and I would do Umnitza M-tech kit, VMR wheels and H&R springs! If you still have some left then do the CF emblems
-1 with the CF pillars. IMO
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Old Feb 6, 2009 | 08:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Nick@Jlevi SW' post='787242' date='Feb 6 2009, 09:06 PM
It's always great when you can turn an accident into a reason to mod. I would consider the vorsteiner hood if you are going to do that upgrade though.

I prefer the Vorsteiner hood too, but for ~$2400 retail that is one expensive mod..
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Old Feb 6, 2009 | 08:25 PM
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a pics and year of your current car would be nice! if you have pre-LCI, you can upgrade to eurospec headlights they look very nice!

-1 with the cf mirror covers IMO!
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